Gaius Terentius Varro

Gaius Terentius Varro was a Roman consul in 216 BC Together with his colleague Lucius Aemilius Paullus, he commanded at the Battle of Cannae in the second Punic war the Roman army against the Carthaginian general Hannibal, who won the battle despite numerical inferiority.

Career and political career

Before consul Varro had become, he managed as praetor in 218 BC, the province of Sardinia, after he was 215-213 BC, Proconsul of Picenum.

208 and 207 BC he held as Propraetor Etruria against Hannibal's younger brother Hasdrubal. In the year 200 BC he went as ambassador to Africa.

Theodor Mommsen wrote in his Roman history about him: " (...) an incompetent man, who was known only by his dogged opposition to the Senate, and especially as the main author of the election of Marcus Minucius to Mitdiktator, and recommended that the nothing of the amount as its low birth and his raw insolence. "